In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the im…

- Rosalind Franklin

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic …

- Rosalind Franklin

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant ra…

- Rosalind Franklin

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit …

- Rosalind Franklin

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

- Rosalind Franklin

Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available…

- Rosalind Franklin

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

- Rosalind Franklin

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiou…

- Rosalind Franklin

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

- Rosalind Franklin